Escapades
I always get people telling me “Gina I want to come to Italy and thrift with you.”
Well, you can!
Put on your stompin’ shoes and come feel what it’s like to be a Modern Thrifter in the Old World. I organize escapades spanning all over Italy, constantly growing and tailor-made to your ‘old-Italy’ interests.
What does this generally look, taste and feel like? Since “early birds get the good vintage coffee in the most historic bar around,” we will start the day off with one of my absolute favorite Italian rituals, the morning caffè, surrounded by authentic patrons and early morning buzz. With the freshest bomboloni and the frothiest cappucino, macchiato, or whatever is neccessario to get you hyped up for market, we will people watch and strategize our attack.
Exploring is done on foot to really get the feel of a place…its streets, people, specialty shops and oldest bottegas. Come with very open eyes, ears, phone storage and bellies! Stops for unique (and mostly fried!) goodies to keep the tempo up is just kinda part of the deal. I mean they don’t say “mangia” for nothing around here!
Escapades
I always get people telling me “Gina I want to come to Italy and thrift with you.”
Well, you can!
Put on your stompin’ shoes and come feel what it’s like to be a Modern Thrifter in the Old World. I organize escapades spanning all over Italy, constantly growing and tailor-made to your ‘old-Italy’ interests.
What does this generally look, taste and feel like? Since “early birds get the good vintage coffee in the most historic bar around,” we will start the day off with one of my absolute favorite Italian rituals, the morning caffè, surrounded by authentic patrons and early morning buzz. With the freshest bomboloni and the frothiest cappucino, macchiato, or whatever is neccessario to get you hyped up for market, we will people watch and strategize our attack.
Exploring is done on foot to really get the feel of a place…its streets, people, specialty shops and oldest bottegas. Come with very open eyes, ears, phone storage and bellies! Stops for unique (and mostly fried!) goodies to keep the tempo up is just kinda part of the deal. I mean they don’t say “mangia” for nothing around here!
Once at market we will search alongside one another. You will have complete access to my x-ray vintage vision that can spot that Edwardian blouse lurking under the old 1980s undershirts. Nothing jazzes me more than uniting someone with their long-awaited one-of-a-kind vintage unicorn.
I’ll get the mirror just when you need to see if the Italian house dress is giving you the desired Gucci vibe or straight ‘Nonna making meatballs’ vibes. It’s a fine line that can be easily crossed amid the flea market chaos! But you really haven’t seen Italy until you’ve been in the thick of it.
Speaking of meatballs, we will stop for lunch in the best Osteria in town, which means the oldest, coolest and of course, the thriftiest. Expect benches, awesome interiors, old Italiani shooting the shit and house wine!
The amount of things you will want to buy and the nonni breathing down your neck can be overwhelming. After a break and enough wine to wash away those lingering inhibitions, we can get last minute bargains and that piece you can’t stop thinking about because you will really only see these things once!
Once at market we will search alongside one another. You will have complete access to my x-ray vintage vision that can spot that Edwardian blouse lurking under the old 1980s undershirts. Nothing jazzes me more than uniting someone with their long-awaited one-of-a-kind vintage unicorn.
I’ll get the mirror just when you need to see if the Italian house dress is giving you the desired Gucci vibe or straight ‘Nonna making meatballs’ vibes. It’s a fine line that can be easily crossed amid the flea market chaos! But you really haven’t seen Italy until you’ve been in the thick of it.
Speaking of meatballs, we will stop for lunch in the best Osteria in town, which means the oldest, coolest and of course, the thriftiest. Expect benches, awesome interiors, old Italiani shooting the shit and house wine!
The amount of things you will want to buy and the nonni breathing down your neck can be overwhelming. After a break and enough wine to wash away those lingering inhibitions, we can get last minute bargains and that piece you can’t stop thinking about because you will really only see these things once!
